Ethics and Plagiarism Policy

Communicação & Educação values ​​academic integrity. With this in mind, the magazine adopts and recommends the following guidelines for maintaining integrity among its employees:

Authors:

  • Authors are responsible for the works they have written, and must ensure respect for the ethical standards of scientific research (absence of plagiarism, duly informed credits, etc.), as well as the ethical principles of the field of knowledge to which the study refers.
  • All researchers who made a significant contribution to a given manuscript must be credited as authors, adopting a hierarchy of authorship in order of contribution.
  • If any aspect of the work may raise questions regarding potential conflicts of interest, the author must declare, in a final note, that no links to funding agencies, as well as commercial or political institutions, were omitted. Likewise, the institution to which the author is eventually linked or that has collaborated in the execution of the study should be mentioned, evidencing that there are no conflicts of interest with the result presented herein.
  • If the research whose manuscript is submitted to Revista involves some type of experimentation with human beings, the author must inform that the work complies with ethical procedures for scientific research of this type.
  • When an author notices an error or inaccuracy in a work that has been published in Comunicação & Educação, he/she must notify the editors so that the relevant corrections are inserted and marked in the published article.

Evaluators:

  • Reviewers must inform editors of any type of ethical deviation (plagiarism, work already submitted for another publication, etc.) that they perceive in the review work.
  • Papers must be evaluated only based on criteria related to the scientific quality of the original (originality, relevance, contribution to the field of studies, etc.), seeking to express in a clear, respectful and reasoned manner the reasons why they recommend approval or rejection .
  • Any reasons that prevent the reviewer from objectively evaluating a manuscript must be communicated to the editors, who will cancel the review request, without any harm to the reviewer.
  • The impossibility of meeting deadlines or carrying out the evaluation must be communicated to the editors, who will take measures to preserve the work evaluation flow.

 Publishers:

  • Plagiarism or self-plagiarism cases will cause the original not to be accepted by the Journal.
  • Suspected that papers submitted to Comunicação & Educação carry out any type of scientific misconduct, such as those described at http://blog.scielo.org/blog/2013/10/02/etica-editorial-e-o-problema-do-plagio/#.WVUnkelv_IU, will give rise to the search for clarification and eventual cancellation of the submission.
  • Reviewers are chosen based on their expertise and knowledge in the area of ​​the work submitted, seeking to avoid any type of conflict of interest or discrimination that could impair the assessment based on criteria solely of scientific merit.
  • The Journal preserves the anonymity and confidentiality of the authors of submissions and their reviewers, in order to preserve the integrity of the review process.
  • Once the manuscript is accepted for evaluation, the Journal seeks to ensure the best possible editorial flow, without any type of discrimination, and is willing to provide clarification to authors on the status of the submission.
  • Comunicação & Educação uses the anti-plagiarism software iThenticate Similarity Check to evaluate articles, having been registered in the AGUIA/USP system since November 2021.

If any published work receives a report of ethical deviation or inaccuracy, the Journal's Editorial Committee will carry out an investigation, in consultation with the author. Once the veracity of the complaint is observed, the Magazine will adopt measures that can range from correction to exclusion of the work.


 The Committee on Publication Ethics – COPE provides instructions. The journal uses the following parameters as procedures:
 https://publicationethics.org/files/All_Flowcharts_Spanish_0.pdf